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The Civil War is raging and in a desperate effort to find more recruits, the Union begins a draft – a draft with a difference. The rich can pay $300 to be released from their obligation, but the poor will have to go and fight and die. In New York City, the recently arrived Irish are the hardest hit by the draft and all through the long hot days of July the city explodes in a rash of arson, marches, attacks, and lynchings, with the immigrant Irish putting off their anger on the black inhabitants of the city.
Fourteen-year-old Claire, the daughter of an Irish mother and a black father, has never had to choose from the two sides of the circle of relatives – she has never had reason to believe her own identity. When she learns that a friend of hers is in danger, she makes a decision to go to her aid, but by venturing out on the streets, she puts her own life at risk.  
    
Myers’s use of the screenplay format allows his readers a birds-eye view of the four hot days in July when New York City burned, the usage of more than one points of view from both sides of the conflict.

Book Details:

  • Format: Paperback
  • Publication Date: 4/26/2011
  • Pages: 176
  • Reading Level: Age 12 and Up

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